WHDH (TV)

"WHDH-TV" redirects here. For the first incarnation of WHDH-TV on channel 5 in Boston, which existed from 1957 to 1972, see WHDH-TV (channel 5).
For the first licensee of channel 7 in Boston, which existed from 1948 to 1982, see WNAC-TV (Boston).

WHDH
Channels
Branding
  • "7" or WHDH Channel 7; 7 News
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WLVI
History
FoundedFebruary 1982
First air date
May 22, 1982 (42 years ago) (1982-05-22)
Former call signs
  • WNEV-TV (1982–1990)
  • WHDH-TV (1990–2010)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 7 (VHF, 1982–2009)
  • Digital: 42 (UHF, 1999–2009, 2009–2019), 7 (VHF, 2009)
  • CBS (1982–1995)
  • NBC (1995–2017)
Call sign meaning
sequentially assigned to former radio sister station WHDH (AM)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID72145
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT304.1 m (998 ft)
Transmitter coordinates42°18′41″N 71°12′58″W / 42.31139°N 71.21611°W / 42.31139; -71.21611
Links
Public license information
Websitewhdh.com

WHDH (channel 7) is an independent television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by Sunbeam Television alongside Cambridge-licensed CW affiliate WLVI (channel 56). WHDH and WLVI share studios at Bulfinch Place (near Bowdoin Square and Government Center) in downtown Boston; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WHDH's spectrum from the WHDH-TV tower in Newton, Massachusetts.[2]

From 1982 to 1995, WHDH was Boston's CBS affiliate, inheriting the affiliation from its predecessor on channel 7, WNAC-TV. On January 2, 1995, WHDH switched to NBC, after CBS moved to WBZ-TV (channel 4) by virtue of a group-wide affiliation deal with its owner, Westinghouse Broadcasting (CBS and Westinghouse merged that November, making WBZ-TV a CBS owned-and-operated station). On January 1, 2017, after losing NBC's affiliation to a newly formed owned-and-operated station, WBTS-LD (channel 8, now Telemundo O&O WYCN-LD in Providence, Rhode Island), WHDH became a news-intensive independent station.[2]

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WHDH". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ a b Network Affiliation of WHDH 7 Archived December 27, 2021, at the Wayback Machine tviv.org/WHDH